1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:06,719 What I do is now I'm focused on still the marketing and sales components and 2 00:00:06,799 --> 00:00:10,439 helping your business grow, but doing it in a way where I can help 3 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:13,679 you build your own team, develop your own strategy, so you can do 4 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:18,359 everything in house and do all that with remote workers, so it is feasible, 5 00:00:18,679 --> 00:00:22,519 it can be consistent. And look, when you're trying to grow a 6 00:00:22,519 --> 00:00:26,440 small business, there's a couple of things right. The first thing is one, 7 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:30,399 they tend to become all consuming, so there's so much to do, 8 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:34,600 There's so many different things pulling our attention so many different ways. It's difficult 9 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:38,439 not to just constantly be working and constantly get be wrapped up in with the 10 00:00:38,439 --> 00:00:43,399 business needs. And the second thing is you're listening to Carrie Let's's Financial Survival 11 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:48,960 Network, where you get valuable information you just can't find anywhere else to thrive 12 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:54,600 in today's trying times. You need the Financial Survival Network now more than ever. 13 00:00:55,159 --> 00:00:59,759 Go to Financial Survivalnetwork dot com and get your free newsletter and gift. 14 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:08,959 Financial Survival Network now more than ever, and welcome you are listening to and 15 00:01:10,079 --> 00:01:14,439 watching the Financial Survival Network. We are on the road. I am in 16 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:21,560 Thailand right now and playing the Digital Nomad and Hey, any of you people 17 00:01:21,599 --> 00:01:25,400 out there in Thailand, I'll be here for another week and a half or 18 00:01:25,439 --> 00:01:29,400 so. Shoot me at email kl at Carrie Lutz dot com if you want 19 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:33,719 to get together. Love to see you. I've already met John. John 20 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:40,519 been a loyal fan of the show for many years and him and his wife 21 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:45,200 were so nice. Showed me all over Bangkok, introduced me to people where 22 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:49,719 I am now, I'm further south than the country and just have been having 23 00:01:49,799 --> 00:01:53,000 the most amazing time. The food, the people, the culture, it's 24 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:59,599 amazing. My producer Melissa's schedules a meeting with Scott Cox. We're talking and 25 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:04,400 it turns out we're like a couple of miles away from each other. Hey, 26 00:02:04,799 --> 00:02:08,479 Scott, you've been playing the Digital Nomad for quite a while now. 27 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:13,080 It's great to have you on the show, and I know you've got some 28 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:17,560 useful information if you are a small business you're looking to scale up, and 29 00:02:17,599 --> 00:02:22,560 you're looking to not work for the business, but have the business work for 30 00:02:22,599 --> 00:02:27,039 you. Because so many times I've been in this small businesses, you wind 31 00:02:27,159 --> 00:02:31,319 up you are working for the business. You've got a job, and what 32 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:37,599 Scott, you help people do is actually liberate themselves from that so that the 33 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:40,639 business works for them, building remote teams to just tell us how you do 34 00:02:40,719 --> 00:02:46,360 this. Yeah, so again, thanks for having me on and I look 35 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:49,280 forward to connecting here. So it's going to be it's gonna be a lot 36 00:02:49,319 --> 00:02:53,280 of fun. I love living in Thailand, love living this digital nomad life. 37 00:02:54,159 --> 00:02:58,560 And you know, I left these dates probably two years ago. At 38 00:02:58,599 --> 00:03:01,919 this point, I've been traveling around South America Southeast Asia, probably two best 39 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:06,360 regions of world. And yeah, it's been a good life. And so 40 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:10,240 you know, I had a marketing agency for quite a few years before I 41 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:15,800 started this, and you know, one of the reasons why I transitioned was 42 00:03:16,319 --> 00:03:23,039 because as a facilitator of you know, like I had my own team and 43 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:25,479 I would go to small businesses and I would help them implement you know, 44 00:03:27,039 --> 00:03:32,919 marketing through my team. You know, it just there was a disconnect between 45 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:38,159 the small business owners really getting it and how much I was really able to 46 00:03:38,159 --> 00:03:42,120 help them scale because we would come in, we would help the market, 47 00:03:42,479 --> 00:03:45,560 they would start to have you know, success, they would have more sales, 48 00:03:46,039 --> 00:03:49,879 and then they didn't know what to do, so they would struggle to 49 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:53,000 hire. They would struggle to know systems to put in place. They would 50 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:57,800 struggle to know the processes all these things. And I struggled with this stuff 51 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:00,479 too, like it was my thing, scaling my business. I you know, 52 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:04,759 I thankfully and luckily I had some really good mentors that were in my 53 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:08,199 circle that could really help me and guide me. You know. I even 54 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:14,280 had like one of my good friends is a he's a really art or programmer, 55 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:17,319 developer. He built his own CRM from scratch and so he's like a 56 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:25,480 systems process guy, and he really helped me get in that mindset of cultivating 57 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:31,360 that. And so what I do is now I'm focused on still the marketing 58 00:04:31,439 --> 00:04:34,920 and sales components and helping your business grow, but doing it in a way 59 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:40,160 where I can help you build your own team, develop your own strategy so 60 00:04:40,199 --> 00:04:43,759 you can do everything in house and do all that with remote workers, so 61 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:48,040 it is feasible, it can be consistent. And look, when you're trying 62 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:51,600 to grow small business, there's a couple of things, right. The first 63 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:57,120 thing is one, they tend to become all consuming, so there's so much 64 00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:00,399 to do. There's so many different things pulling our attentions so many different ways. 65 00:05:00,639 --> 00:05:04,079 It's difficult not to just constantly be working and constantly get be wrapped up 66 00:05:04,079 --> 00:05:10,160 in with the business needs. And the second thing is it's expensive to grow 67 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:15,879 business. It's expensive and time consuming in and of itself. And so you 68 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:19,000 know, utilizing remote workers, which is what I started doing when I started 69 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:24,319 my marketing agency, has really been a game changer. It's allowed me to 70 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:30,439 hire quality employees. It's allowed me to you know, automate systems and processes 71 00:05:30,439 --> 00:05:33,199 in my business, or at least take them off of my blate. I 72 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:36,920 don't have to worry about them. And so, you know, when I 73 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:41,439 was in my marketing agency seeing all these happen, all these things happened, 74 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:46,279 seeing the business owners my clients struggle with these things, you know, I 75 00:05:46,439 --> 00:05:48,959 just said, hey, I can help people in a bigger, more impactful 76 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:54,360 way. I live an amazing life, as we've discussed them in Thailand, 77 00:05:54,399 --> 00:05:59,720 and I've been bouncing around the world. And whether people want to travel or 78 00:05:59,759 --> 00:06:01,480 not, they want to spend more time with their family, or they want 79 00:06:01,519 --> 00:06:05,240 to volunteer more in their communities, whatever it is that people want to do. 80 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:11,240 A small business is a path to that, but you have to do 81 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:15,360 it correctly. And so my goal is to help we'll get more out of 82 00:06:15,399 --> 00:06:18,519 life by creating a small business actually serves them, like you said, instead 83 00:06:18,519 --> 00:06:23,959 of them serving small business. Yeah, So how do you do it correctly? 84 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:30,079 What is the key towards towards making the business work for you and not 85 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:34,000 being a slave to your business? Yeah? Well, and I mean this, 86 00:06:34,199 --> 00:06:40,480 I think this conversation has been quite It has been discussed in different circles 87 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:42,560 quite a bit, and so you can find this. It's nothing new, 88 00:06:42,639 --> 00:06:47,720 but it's it's systems, processes and people. Right. But the biggest thing 89 00:06:47,759 --> 00:06:50,920 here is and a lot of people say that, right, systems process people. 90 00:06:50,959 --> 00:06:53,600 You know, you put a system at place, you give them, 91 00:06:53,959 --> 00:06:56,399 you hire people, and you give them a process to work the systems, 92 00:06:56,439 --> 00:07:00,959 and that's it, right, And it essentially is that the biggest thing is 93 00:07:00,959 --> 00:07:05,000 is us as business owners. There's so many in so many areas when it 94 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:10,160 comes to managing people, knowing how to create systems, you know, putting 95 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:15,839 these processes. We are just typically not educated and we have little experience on 96 00:07:15,879 --> 00:07:20,560 how to do these things successfully and navigating different problems that come up. And 97 00:07:20,639 --> 00:07:27,040 so it is some processes. It's hey, if you are trying to do 98 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:30,240 some sales, you should have a CRM, and you should have you know, 99 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:33,439 a salesperson that's made not CRM, and you know you should give them 100 00:07:33,439 --> 00:07:38,160 an instruction on how to utilize the CRM so it matches the workflow in your 101 00:07:38,199 --> 00:07:44,800 business. But those things tend to see these seem to be pretty foreign with 102 00:07:46,079 --> 00:07:47,639 you know, small business owners. Even if we just look at sales, 103 00:07:48,759 --> 00:07:53,519 then we look at marketing, like how does some owner put together a sales 104 00:07:53,519 --> 00:07:57,959 pitch successfully that allows them to sell their business? You know, And so 105 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:03,680 there's so many things within us. You know, that's my biggest My biggest 106 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:09,120 thing is you know, we can look at those three items, but you 107 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:13,279 know we we have to be able to be willing to grow and learn and 108 00:08:13,279 --> 00:08:18,959 and change and change, right the jet D to see where change? Yeah, 109 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:24,480 well, you know it's even like the biggest objection I get to hiring 110 00:08:24,519 --> 00:08:28,959 remote workers is well, what can they do? And can I trust them? 111 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:33,799 You know? And it's honestly good. Probably you can probably trust them 112 00:08:33,799 --> 00:08:37,080 more than you can trust someone you know from a Western country. To be 113 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:41,159 honest, they're hard at working, they want to perform well, they actually 114 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:46,240 see your job at or to six dollars an hour as a great opportunity for 115 00:08:46,759 --> 00:08:50,399 right, so they appreciate, you know, Versus you're going to pay someone 116 00:08:50,399 --> 00:08:52,480 in the States. I don't even know what you pay now, I mean 117 00:08:52,519 --> 00:08:58,639 what the twelve fifteen dollars an hour twenty end up? If you want some 118 00:08:58,279 --> 00:09:03,679 actually, yeah something right, So it's insane what you're gonna pay. Versus 119 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:05,559 you can go find someone who's gonna work twice as hard. They're going to 120 00:09:05,639 --> 00:09:09,679 be more loyal, they're gonna stay much longer in your business for you know, 121 00:09:09,759 --> 00:09:13,200 five bucks an hour, six bucks an hourly, you know you're gonna 122 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:18,240 go there three boy, they're grateful, right, gightful for the position. 123 00:09:18,759 --> 00:09:22,039 Yeah here, yes, sir, yes, ma'am, thank you. You 124 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:26,559 know all those things where you know, even maybe a twenty dollars hour play 125 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:28,679 in the state should still get you know, begrudging looks and you know, 126 00:09:28,759 --> 00:09:35,360 showing up late and you know who knows what it's Oh. I always say 127 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:39,559 that there's a two kinds of people in the world, those who can't do 128 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:43,320 enough for you and those who can't do enough for you. Right right, 129 00:09:43,519 --> 00:09:48,600 exactly exactly. We lost your camera there, I lost your camera and your 130 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:54,559 mic and my mike. Oh, now you're there. Now we got it. 131 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:58,759 Sorry about that. I was just switching around apps here. So hey, 132 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:01,279 I always say there's two kinds of people in the world, those who 133 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:03,240 can't do enough for you and those who can't do enough for you. And 134 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:07,879 certainly hiring remotely, you know, they might not have the knowledge base, 135 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:13,919 but they are very trainable, motivated because they're grateful for this opportunity because hey, 136 00:10:15,159 --> 00:10:18,440 six bucks an hour in Thailand is some major money for these people. 137 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:24,039 It's life changing for them. Yeah, And here's the thing is where we're 138 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:31,720 at this these days, right, you have technology, We have AI software, 139 00:10:31,799 --> 00:10:37,480 especially when it comes to marketing and sales. You know, tasks and 140 00:10:37,519 --> 00:10:41,240 skill sets that that you know, most businesses are trying to get done. 141 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:46,399 You campair, you know, a five dollars an hour VA who maybe has 142 00:10:46,639 --> 00:10:54,080 eighty percent ninety percent English capability with chat GBT or an app like Hemingway, 143 00:10:54,399 --> 00:10:58,960 where it's going to basically take what they've written, it's going to expand on 144 00:10:58,039 --> 00:11:01,799 it and then you can drop it into a Hemingway which is going to reformat 145 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:07,480 it into great English at a certain reading level whatever you want, which is 146 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:11,919 going to give you amazing content. You know, at a really digestible reading 147 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:16,759 level. But then you're paying five dollars an hour to get it done. 148 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:20,720 So really, you know, maybe a couple of years ago I could see 149 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:22,720 like, yeah, you know, okay, if you need someone who is 150 00:11:22,919 --> 00:11:26,519 like a really proficient English copywriter, you're gonna have to pay more. And 151 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:31,519 we're talking like ten dollars an hour, which if you've been in business, 152 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:35,200 you've been in marketing, you know copywriters go for way more than that. 153 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:41,879 But you know, with AI, it's just I mean, they can work 154 00:11:41,919 --> 00:11:46,559 faster, they can get more done and better quality. Well, right now, 155 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:52,360 as we speak, my AI note taker read dot AI is transcripting this. 156 00:11:52,639 --> 00:11:56,519 It's going to come up with a summary, and then I take that 157 00:11:56,759 --> 00:12:01,080 and use it to write show notes. It enabled me. I had somebody 158 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:05,840 who was paying twenty plus dollars an hour or two in the States who wrote 159 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:11,679 show notes. She was amazing, but she didn't really understand the business that 160 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:16,519 I'm in. What I do. Now, I take this and it's about 161 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:22,159 ninety percent as good as her. I pay for this red AI one hundred 162 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:26,519 twenty dollars a year and instead of one hundred and twenty a week or one 163 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:31,759 hundred and fifty or two hundred and you know, and my workflow has improved, 164 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:35,840 So the AI can really do a lot for you. So that's just 165 00:12:37,039 --> 00:12:43,799 one example of what you can do. And when you're when you're looking to 166 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:48,919 help people and you know you onboard them into your process, what are you 167 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:52,720 looking for when you take on a client, Because you don't just take anybody 168 00:12:52,759 --> 00:12:56,399 on. They've got to meet a certain criteria because you only want to work 169 00:12:56,440 --> 00:13:00,679 with people who are going to be successful, right Scott. Yeah, And 170 00:13:00,799 --> 00:13:03,639 I mean sometimes you know, it's hard to know who exactly is going to 171 00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:07,519 be successful. But yeah, I mean pretty much the kind of client that 172 00:13:07,919 --> 00:13:11,840 I'm looking for is going to be someone who's in the service industry. It 173 00:13:11,919 --> 00:13:16,039 could be residential services, it could be blue collar, it could be white 174 00:13:16,039 --> 00:13:20,960 collar services. That's kind of really my niche from the marketing agency. That's 175 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:24,039 what I know really well. It's also one of the more difficult industries I 176 00:13:24,039 --> 00:13:28,559 think to market versus something like an e commerce. I mean, they all 177 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:33,720 have their pros and cons, but yeah, it's goodbal services, yeah, 178 00:13:33,799 --> 00:13:37,879 yeah, but services industry you know probably doing you know, I've you can 179 00:13:37,919 --> 00:13:41,759 go to my website, have varying packages. So the first kind of offer 180 00:13:41,799 --> 00:13:46,240 I have is an audit where I come in and I just basically we have 181 00:13:46,279 --> 00:13:48,919 like one hundred and seventy five point audit, We go through your business and 182 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:52,480 we just kind of highlight all the problems for you. So anyone at that, 183 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:56,919 anyone at any level could benefit from that. Obviously probably want to be 184 00:13:56,960 --> 00:13:58,759 doing around you know, six figures a year, you know, one hundred 185 00:13:58,759 --> 00:14:01,799 thousan in a year, one hundred twenty thousand a year to really benefit from 186 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:07,159 that, are implementing, and then you know, you need to be in 187 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:11,279 a mode of looking to hire. You need to be you need to be 188 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:15,399 open to the idea of letting go of some of the things in your business. 189 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:18,759 So, you know, starting around one hundred thousand and up, you 190 00:14:18,799 --> 00:14:20,919 know, a lot of my clients are in the sixth you know, six 191 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:26,759 figure to low seven figure range looking to scale the multiple seven figures, but 192 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:30,879 at the same time not be making you know, one and a half million 193 00:14:30,919 --> 00:14:33,440 dollars a year, be profiting fifty thousand, you know, and so, 194 00:14:33,879 --> 00:14:37,279 and be working eighty hours a week in the business, which is how out 195 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:41,600 of seem to be building their businesses who wants to do that. I mean, 196 00:14:41,799 --> 00:14:45,519 I've been there, done that, I got the T shirt, I 197 00:14:45,639 --> 00:14:50,279 was successful, but knowing what I know now, I would just never do 198 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:54,919 it the way then. Yeah, say, man, I want a simple 199 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:58,039 life. I want to enjoy my life. So you know, if I 200 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:01,679 can hire some remote workers, I can get some AI software, and I 201 00:15:01,679 --> 00:15:05,120 can get some systems in place to help manage everything, and I can work, 202 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:09,159 you know, ten to twenty hours a week and live a great life 203 00:15:09,159 --> 00:15:13,879 in Thailand or wherever I am. And you know, so happiness, right, 204 00:15:15,039 --> 00:15:20,120 the happiness factor. Everything you do should be aimed at achieving happiness and 205 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:30,399 a blissful balanced state. But unfortunately not usually the case. You know that 206 00:15:30,559 --> 00:15:37,120 old saying most people lead a life of a quiet desperation. Yep, absolutely, 207 00:15:37,799 --> 00:15:41,399 yeah, you know, I think happiness is one of those things where 208 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:46,440 I don't necessarily think that's the goal, because happiness, you know, can 209 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:50,600 fade different times and things like that. But I think you choose to be 210 00:15:50,679 --> 00:15:56,080 happy, and I think if your environment is correct, it's much easier to 211 00:15:56,120 --> 00:16:02,159 choose to be happy. So like you can create an environment where you know, 212 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:03,759 you don't have to be like, I'm going to be happy today you 213 00:16:03,799 --> 00:16:07,919 know, like, you know, you can just be happy because you've created 214 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:11,080 a simple life. And I think that's one of the problems. You know. 215 00:16:11,159 --> 00:16:15,919 We were talking, you know, briefly before we started the podcast about 216 00:16:17,039 --> 00:16:18,480 you know, the US and everything, and I think that's just one of 217 00:16:18,519 --> 00:16:22,440 the things that the West does, especially the US, does really well, 218 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:30,519 is they just keep people busy. And I think that part of people in 219 00:16:30,559 --> 00:16:33,320 the rat race, if we keep them busy, they'll be distracted and they 220 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:38,679 want, you know, on the wheel exactly, hold out a little food, 221 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:45,639 hold out some drugs, to hold out to entertainment prospects. But you 222 00:16:45,639 --> 00:16:48,600 know, what we're talking about here is the difference between I heard a doctor 223 00:16:48,679 --> 00:16:53,759 say it on YouTube. It's not my thing. He says, pleasure is 224 00:16:53,879 --> 00:17:00,120 dopamine happy. This is they're atoning, right, and it's so true. 225 00:17:00,399 --> 00:17:03,880 So hey, I'm going to put you on the spot here, Scott. 226 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:10,000 Three things if you're a business owner you can do right now to up your 227 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:15,000 marketing game. All right. Three things. Start documenting what you're doing. 228 00:17:15,279 --> 00:17:21,319 You don't have to just create random content or try to create random content. 229 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:25,039 Document what you're doing. That's a Gary v thing that has always been true 230 00:17:25,079 --> 00:17:29,640 and resonated with me. So just document it, put that out there for 231 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:33,480 people to see, and let's see. What would the third thing be, 232 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:40,640 Document what you're doing, put it out there, and be consistent, honestly, 233 00:17:40,799 --> 00:17:45,519 be consistent. That those would be the three things, as simple as 234 00:17:45,559 --> 00:17:48,440 that, because most people aren't. Most people are documenting what they're doing to 235 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:53,720 create these Uh, they're trying to create these you know, like like a 236 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:57,079 lot of small business owners and it's just because we don't know. But we'll 237 00:17:57,079 --> 00:18:02,119 go out and we'll hire a spend five thousand dollars on a company to do 238 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:06,359 a three minute commercial, right, and it's like, no one's watching a 239 00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:10,079 three minute commercial any more. Yeah, there's no way. Man. If 240 00:18:10,079 --> 00:18:14,960 you get them to watch for fifteen seconds, you're doing amazing, right, 241 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:21,160 So you know there will document what you're doing, make and that'll be interesting 242 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:23,319 because people are actually and you see this on TikTok, right. You see 243 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:29,400 how many people are just you know, metal workers and wood fabricators and all 244 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:33,440 these things and they're just literally have a camera on a tripod and they're just 245 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:37,759 recording and talking to the camera. It's fascinating and I have to tell you, 246 00:18:38,079 --> 00:18:42,440 I got to tell you a funny story about that. Yeah, toilet 247 00:18:42,799 --> 00:18:49,640 in my house. It was doing what's called phantom flushing because leaking the flapper 248 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:53,720 isn't the ceiling, so the water drains out and then when it gets to 249 00:18:53,799 --> 00:18:57,880 a certain point, it flushes, and that's called phantom flushing. So I 250 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:02,519 said, well, hey, I'm pretty handy. I'm going to go onto 251 00:19:02,599 --> 00:19:07,920 YouTube and I'll find I'll find some plumbers to tell you how to fix it, 252 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:11,559 what to do. So I go and they say, buy a flapper, 253 00:19:11,599 --> 00:19:15,799 and so I buy it, and of course I buy a universal flapper, 254 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:18,200 which I come back and I said, well, as long as I'm 255 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:22,519 doing one toilet, I'll do the other toilet too, because it's probably going 256 00:19:22,599 --> 00:19:26,559 to need it. So of course the universal flapper is not universal. It 257 00:19:26,599 --> 00:19:30,960 doesn't fit mine. So back to home depot, return them, get to 258 00:19:32,279 --> 00:19:36,720 get the other universal flapper. I get that, and all right, I 259 00:19:36,759 --> 00:19:40,720 pulled the other one out. I made the mistake of not turning off the 260 00:19:40,799 --> 00:19:47,000 water and there's a hose that goes into the float and I'm not the hose, 261 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:51,359 and all of a sudden, water is shooting all over the place. 262 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:55,240 I'm drenched. I'm cursing my brains out. Finally I get to wherewithal, 263 00:19:55,319 --> 00:19:57,960 I turn off the water and the toilet, which I should have started with, 264 00:19:59,519 --> 00:20:02,759 and I do. I'm thinking, oh my god, I'm going to 265 00:20:02,839 --> 00:20:06,720 have to call a plumber here now to come fix this thing, and he's 266 00:20:06,759 --> 00:20:10,279 gonna laugh at me, and I'm gonna have to pay more money for him 267 00:20:10,279 --> 00:20:12,759 to fix my mess. Well, I get my wits about me, put 268 00:20:12,759 --> 00:20:18,720 the hose back in, change the flapper. The phantom flushing stopped. So 269 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:22,720 the point is, when you start doing this, you're gonna get soaking wet 270 00:20:23,079 --> 00:20:27,759 because I'm gonna make mistakes. But the end and goal the satisfaction of not 271 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:37,079 having to call the plumber to come fix your mess out these the uncomfortability that 272 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:41,599 you encounter. So I think I think you really could teach people a lot. 273 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:44,400 Hey, how do we find you? How do we connect with you 274 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:48,000 on the web? Assuming that we're not traveling to Thailand. Yeah, if 275 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:52,720 you're coming to Thailand, I'm here for a while, so definitely, uh 276 00:20:52,799 --> 00:20:56,440 you know, let me know. But you can go to my website at 277 00:20:56,599 --> 00:21:02,799 Stxconsulting dot co, so you can find out more about what I do there. 278 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:06,920 But you can also connect with me on social I have a YouTube channel 279 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:10,359 where I publish videos. We're actually changing up the style of videos. We're 280 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:14,799 going to start doing more documentary and stuff and kind of I've done a lot 281 00:21:14,839 --> 00:21:18,599 of videos on sales, marketing and vas or remote workers. So if you're 282 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:22,960 looking for how to do those things, all of that content is on your 283 00:21:22,079 --> 00:21:26,079 channel. We've got sixty something videos on there that highlight those things from a 284 00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:30,119 top level that can be applied to any business. And now we're going to 285 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:33,720 start kind of We're still talking about those things, but I'm going to be 286 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:37,920 showing how this plays out in my life, because see, people seem to 287 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:44,400 be way more interested in how I actually live my life by implet themselves, 288 00:21:45,799 --> 00:21:49,359 right, So we're going to be highlighting that and showing my life of getting 289 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:55,359 multiple passports and moving countries and you know, how do I like, how 290 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:59,720 do I just literally decided to move to Thailand in December. Two weeks later 291 00:21:59,839 --> 00:22:03,640 I left Indonesia and now I'm living in Thailand. I'm like, when you 292 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:04,640 have a business, how do you do that? You know, like, 293 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:07,759 I think most people want to saw to do that. So you can follow 294 00:22:07,799 --> 00:22:14,000 me on YouTube at no Mad Talk and that oh is a zero, so 295 00:22:14,279 --> 00:22:18,880 n zero mad talk and then you can find me on Instagram, Facebook, 296 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:23,160 everywhere else at the same handle and zero mad talk and yeah, in follow 297 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:26,799 my jail reach out. All right, excellent, man, Hey, we 298 00:22:26,839 --> 00:22:30,519 really appreciate you coming on. Got a question for Scott or myself. The 299 00:22:30,559 --> 00:22:36,359 email address is kl at Carrie LUTs dot com. Even though I am twelve 300 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:41,200 thousand miles away from Florida, I'm still getting all my emails and everything. 301 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:47,759 I've got the local Tie cell phone service, so I've got my data, 302 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:51,680 so I'm still a data junkie. Kl at Kerrie LUTs dot com. We 303 00:22:51,799 --> 00:22:56,960 return everything and hey to get Scott's link and everything else. It's in the 304 00:22:56,000 --> 00:23:02,480 show notes this interview on Financial Survival Network dot com. And while you're there, 305 00:23:02,559 --> 00:23:04,279 sign up for a free newsletter. Scott. Been a pleasure. We 306 00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:10,240 will definitely connect soon. Sounds good. Thanks for listening to Carrie Letz's Financial 307 00:23:10,279 --> 00:23:15,480 Survival Network, your solution to today's trying times. For the latest, go 308 00:23:15,559 --> 00:23:22,079 to Financial Survivalnetwork dot com. Financial Survival Network now more than ever